COS member Steve Whitman recaps the owl prowl at Marian R. Byrnes Park.
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COS member Joann Umeki recaps the Owl Prowl at Park 566.
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Birder/photographer Terry Elia documents the recent sighting of ibises at Indian Ridge Marsh.
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It's Christmas Bird Count season! With well near a dozen counts happening throughout the Chicagoland area, how does one get started? We've got you covered!
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BOS board member and trip leader Vinod Babu recaps a rainy but ultimately successful bird walk at Busse Woods for the Urban Birding Festival.
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COS member Kris Hansen recaps the bird walk at Marian Byrnes Natural Area on June 1, 2025.
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Jon Evans recaps the COS field trip to Marian Byrnes Park on April 27, 2025.
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COS board member and trip leader Jake Vinsel recaps the bird walk at Indian Ridge Marsh on April 19, 2025.
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COS member Steve Whitman recaps the field trip to Big Marsh on April 12, 2025.
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COS member Kris Hansen recaps the American Woodcock walks at the end of March and beginning of April 2025.
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COS’s annual guide to the Indiana Dunes Birding Festival highlights the best the festival has to offer.
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Lauren Kostas interviews Dan Lory about his observations of of Park 566 and his annual Park 566 State of the Birds reports. Originally published in the Summer 2023 issue of The Chicago Birder.
Read MoreAfter a series of high profile announcements and guarantees of funding from federal, state, and local governments, the all but guaranteed project was touted as finally bringing economic development to the vacant land. Anyone familiar with birding in the Calumet region however, knows that the area is anything but vacant of life and is home to countless species and an ecosystem not found anywhere else in Chicago.
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It's Christmas Bird Count season! With well near a dozen counts happening throughout the Chicagoland area, how does one get started? We've got you covered!
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Lauren Kostas chats with Dan Lory and Michael Avara about Big Marsh’s first Motus ping as we celebrate the third anniversary of the antennae’s installation atop the Ford Calumet Environmental Center.
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COS member David Hoyt recaps the Indiana Dunes State Park Transit Hike on Sept. 27, 2024.
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Stephanie Beilke, chair of COS's Calumet Initiative and leader of the MAPS banding station, provides highlights of this year's banding season at Big Marsh.
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Ten walk participants joined a fun birding adventure led by guides Stephanie Beilke and Jake Vinsel at Indian Ridge Marsh in the Calumet Region.
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Field Trip Leader Jake Vinsel recaps the March 16 COS field trip to Big Marsh.
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